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Welcome To London Hello, ladies and gentlemen. We welcome you to London’s most famous sights are Tower Bridge, Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament, Trafalgar Square and St. Paul’s Cathedral. You’ll see these places and much more of London from our red double-decker.

Trafalgar Square is the place where mass meetings and demonstrations for peace and for working people's rights take place. • We start from Trafalgar Square. • On the column in the center there is a statue of Admiral Nelson who defeated the French at the battle of Trafalgar in 1805.

National Gallery. The whole of the north side of Trafalgar Square is dominated by the National Gallery. It houses one of the finest art collections in the world. It includes painting from British, Italian, Spanish, French, Dutch, Flemish and other famous schools. It has a priceless collection of paintings by the famous artists Van Gogh, Reuben’s, Constable and any other painter you wish to name.

Piccadilly Circus Now we are coming to Piccadilly Circus. It is the meeting point of six streets. Piccadilly Circus is a square in the central part of London's best-known theatres and cinemas and most famous restaurants are on Piccadilly Circus. In the square you can see people of many nationalities and hear a lot of different languages.

Buckingham Palace • Now we are at Buckingham Palace. BUCKINGHAM PALACE is the official residents of Her Majesty the Queen and her family. It is the London home of the Queen. It isn’t open to the public. • It has six hundred rooms, a swimming pool, a cinema, a ballroom, a nuclear cellar and a garden, which is like a private park. In summer the Queen gives three garden parties for about 9000 guests. When the flag is flying on the top she is at home.

Changing of the Guard Palace ceremony of the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace is a great tourist’s attraction. Look, they are changing the Guard. It happens every day at 11. 30 a. m.

Houses of Parliament You can see the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben. The Houses of Parliament is the seat of the British government. Big Ben is one of the most famous clocks in the world.

BIG BEN • BIG BEN. Tourists in London always want to visit Westminster and see Big Ben. They want to see the clock in it its tower and to hear the bells. Big Ben is really a bell. You hear it every hour. It is a big bell. It weighs 13 720 kilograms. It has a deep tone and you can hear it on the radio: “This is the BBC. The time is six o’clock. ” And then you hear the deep boom of Big Ben of six times.

Westminster Abbey • In a moment you will see Westminster Abbey. It is a royal church. Here you can see the tombs of many British kings and queens and other famous people and the beautiful Henry VII Chapel. The Westminster Palace and Westminster Abbey are a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

London Eye The London Eye, also called Millennium Wheel is a 135 m (443 feet) observation wheel, the tallest in the world. . The best time to ride (or "fly", as they say) is at sunset, where the views over the illuminated Westminster Palace and Thames River are spectacular.

Tower of London Now we are crossing Tower Bridge over the river Thames. From here you can see the Tower of London. It was a fortress, a royal palace and later a prison. It is a museum now. There a lot of interesting collections in the Tower of London. The ravens are another famous sight. The legend says that without them the Tower will fall. The Raven Master is the person who gives them food. .

Tower Bridge

St. Paul's Cathedral • Earlier in our tour we saw a famous royal church, Westminster Abbey. We are now making our way to the second famous church, St. Paul’s Cathedral. It is greatest work of the architect Sir Christopher Wren.

Covent Garden • We are now going along Fleet Street to the Strand. On the right you’ll see Covent Garden. It was a big fruit and vegetables market. It is now a tourist shopping center with cafes and restaurants. We’ll stop here so that you can go shopping.

Our tour has finished. I hope very much that you have enjoyed this tour of London. Thank you and goodbye.

Tower Bridge

Tower of London

Buckingham Palace

Westminster Abbey

London Eye

Trafalgar Square, National Gallery

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